WOYWW 879 Knitting and Making Wanted Posters

Hi all, 

I hope you’ve had a good Easter.  I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed, sending healing hugs to our Neet and others feeling under the weather. I’m starting to feel better from Bell’s palsy; thanks for your good wishes. 

Having made loads of twiddles when I wasn’t up to doing anything else, I sent some off to someone in our Handmade for Dementia group who make cannula sleeves for hospital patients with dementia.(Some just  do the knitting and sewing up, and there are a few of us who mainly crochet twiddles.) I’ve finished off some cannula sleeves I’d made and am knitting another one so I’ve ten to send. 

The twiddles above are quite Spring- themed. I like doing my rabbit silhouette with a white tail,(although in the photo it looks more like a snail😀) but we don’t do whole sleeves in a particular theme. 

Bella likes me knitting as she can easily supervise me. She sends you all purrs 

We knit the cannula sleeves according to a risk-assessed pattern, with bright coloured stripes in different textural stitches. It’s a while since I’ve knitted them and found the website below useful for free stitch patterns:

Free knitting stitches  

I’ve started doing Wanted Posters for our festival in Beaujolais in May, where the theme for our fancy dress parade is a French cowboy series called Lucky Luke. I tried a Wanted poster template but it was quite restrictive and created huge files so I did one from scratch in PowerPoint. 

Here’s mine:

They don’t seem to mind me making up Western nicknames in English - I guess it’s more authentic. They like the idea of showing us as kids and not putting their real names in so that it’s harder to guess who’s who. I think there’ll be some 500 to do. I’m making some blank ones for sticking photos on manually, as for certain there’ll be people who don’t do anything till the last minute. 

This photo reminds me that next Monday will be the 65th anniversary of my first day at school. I can still feel the rage. Miss Smith asked who could write their name so I wrote mine on the blackboard: LYNNE. ‘That’s wrong’ she said, ‘You don’t write it all in capitals.’ 

‘It’s not wrong, my Daddy taught me,’ was my furious reply. My fists still clench to think of it. How to learn mistrust of authority on your first day at school 😂.

And finally….

No art class this week so I’ll be round to visit in the morning. 

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx